The thumb hole is hole #1 and the top hole on the front of the flute is hole #2
The ring fingers hold the flute while the 1st, 2nd and pinky fingers play the notes.
The specs below help to choose the flute size for you
Key
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Mouth-tip to furthest hole
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Distance between holes
(center to center)
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Largest hole
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C for medium hands
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22" pinky finger offset hole
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1"
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7/16"
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Bb for large hands
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25" pinky finger offset hole
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1 1/8"
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7/16"
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Back Story
While doing morning yoga and listening to Pandora radio, I heard a beautiful flute.
It was a song titled "Vata" by Kiran Murti. click to hear sample:
I got up right away to figure out what that compelling scale was.
This was a scale that unlocked something deep in my soul's yearning.
I didn't finish yoga and skipped breakfast while in a creative fever to make a flute with that scale...now!
I took a funky, experimental Anasazi Flute, plugged up the holes and re-drilled the holes for this new scale.
And it was just right!
Now here's where it gets really interesting.
I had recently been considering adding the Mojave Scale to my current line of flutes.
So, I was deciding whether to offer either the Mojave Scale or this new scale.
While looking at the scale intervals I noticed a similarity between the two.
Lo and behold...the new scale already had the 4-hole Mojave Scale within it.
Not only that but it also contained the Geoffrey Ellis, Mojave 6 Flute scale plus an additional note below.
WOW...that blew me away! (pun intended)
Why is it named the KIVA FLUTE ?
First, to define "root note." It is the fundamental note upon which the scale is built.
It is usually the lowest note on flutes, with all the holes closed.
On the Kiva Flute the root note is with the bottom 7th hole open.
When you close the bottom hole you're going below the root/ground and
that is what I've coined as the Kiva note. The ceremonial kiva building of the Pueblo people is below ground.
When you play the kiva note in relation to the root note it evokes a feeling of going below or within.
It evokes a feeling of prayer and ceremony.
"I received the new beauty a bit ago, and she is magnificent! The sound just carries through the house, and the scale
is smoky and mysterious...So thank you so much, and I will probably be getting the other Kiva in the lower key."
You're a wonderful Spirit!
Peace and light,
Kim from Saint Louis, Mo.
ps: I opened and closed the flute circle with the Kiva Flute and she was magnificent!
Was visited by a Barn Owl close by who had a conversation with the Kiva...Very cool!
"Wow...The Kiva Flute makes me speechless. I can not put it down.
It is a time machine transporting me to a higher dimension......"
Big thanks, Charlie from B.C., Canada
